oh how it is exciting
oh how it is delighting
to be thrilled by things
things things
what will they bring to me
things things things
things touch me like
rings rings rings of possession
progressively burning things
thoroughly through passions
I transgress all beliefs into things things
to devour matter
to fart out ether
to tear out suffering flesh
to spend better of all reasons
to cash in this terrific treason
on and on
secretly fear
and find out fear near and far
crystally tied to the traitorous throne
using secretly the terrible might
to nail in shivering thorn of fright
deep into your broken bones
that cling cling
everybody sing sing sing
so become
my things things things
The project is part of the subthemes Re-imagining identity through poetry, The Ecology of Language - Poetry and Environmental Action, Healing Narratives - Poetry, Mental Health and Collective Trauma, Cultural Resilience - Literature as a force for social justice, Poetry and the Digital Commons - New platforms, new audiences.
Author
Ivan Pravdić
Ivan Pravdić, DoA, full professor
Born in 1975. in Belgrade, Serbia.
Poet and performer. Author of artistic books: "Collected Pravdić - pentateuch" (poetry, 2003, SKC Novi Sad and BuyBook Sarajevo), "Wahrheit macht frei" (poetry, 2005, Library Žarko Zrenjanin), "Two Distinclively Different Novels" (prose, 2023, BKC, Novo Miloševo) and few expert books and editions on Arts, Technology, Media...
Holds second (2022) and third (2022) place at Slam Poetry State Competition of Serbia.
Head of Doctoral Studies, Chairman of the Council at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia. Head of Polymedia study group at Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. Associated member of Center for Interdisciplinary Performative Arts at Birmingham City University, UK.
With performances, drama, audience participation and texts he has participated at festivals and symposiums in Germany, Canada, the UK, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Portugal, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Turkey and the whole ex-Yugoslavia.
Creates and develops Time Design.
